Scout’s Eye: Cowboys’ Air Attack, Murray’s Importance Among Game Thoughts

[waving monkey]

1). Count me as one of those people who was surprised at how easily the Cowboys offense was able to move the ball through the air. When you studied this Colts defense, I believed that the strength of it was how well their secondary managed to play in coverage. Vontae Davis and Greg Toler were two of the better cornerbacks that I had seen and Mike Adams at safety presented several problems to opponents that attempted to attack the middle of the field. What was clear is that as the game wore on they were no match for the Cowboys’ skill players. It was shocking the amount of space that Dez Bryant and Jason Witten had when they were running their routes. At times it was as if the Cowboys were working against air during an OTA practice in the spring, and for a defense that was a league best in playing third-down defense with stout coverage, it was as bad as it gets. Give those Cowboys’ skill players a great deal of credit in the way they showed up today and took it to the Colts

2). Jason Garrett said he knew on the plane flight from Philadelphia that DeMarco Murray was going to play in this game against the Colts, which is not any new revelation from what we have seen from Murray all year. Murray did not appear to be favoring his hand in any way, whether that was carrying the ball or in his assignments in the blitz pickups. His running style and willingness to fight for extra yards was not compromised at all. There were some downs where he had to carry the ball with less-than-perfect blocking in front of him, but as we have seen from him before, he was able to lower a shoulder and grind out what he could. What I will remember about this game is that it might not have been Murray’s finest hour statistically, but anyone that saw him play in this NFC East division-clinching game will never forget how important it was to just have him on the field.

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[honyock]

Here was his point #11:

11). There are a lot of college scout’s around the country who are wishing they could have written another report about Anthony Hitchens because right now he is making them all look bad.